I Am From What Moves Through Me
An Interactive Cultural and Arts-Making Family Workshop
How do we stay connected to culture when our families live between places, languages, generations, and stories?
A playful workshop for parents and their 11–14-year-old children to explore culture, memory, movement, and the stories that shape who we are.
Sunday, August 2nd
10:00–11:30 AM
Prime Produce, 424 W 54th St, NYC
About the Workshop
In this intergenerational workshop, parents and their 11–14-year-old children will create movement and poetry inspired by the Discovery Cards, a creative movement deck created by Andrew Suseno to support Moving Rasa practice.
Rather than offering written prompts, the Discovery Cards invite participants through image, intuition, movement improvisation, and the environment around them. Families will draw a card, explore its image through simple movement, notice what memories or sensations arise, and use that experience as the seed for an “I Am” poem.
Together, families will explore cultural heritage, listen to each other’s stories, and discover how culture is remembered, changed, and carried forward.
No dance or poetry experience is needed. Just bring curiosity, openness, and a willingness to listen and imagine together.
Together families will:
Workshop Details
We offer a sliding scale so families can choose the rate that best fits their circumstances.
Register for the WorkshopWho is This For?
This workshop is designed for parents and their 11–14-year-old children to participate together.
It is especially welcoming for families of diaspora experience, families reconnecting with ancestry, families living across cultures, and families creating new ways to belong.
All families are welcome. You do not need to be an artist, dancer, poet, or performer to participate. This is a BIPOC- and Queer-affirming space.
Facilitators
This workshop brings together poetry, movement, storytelling, and cultural reflection through the facilitation of Regie Cabico and Andrew Suseno.
Regie Cabico
Regie Cabico is the first Asian American and openly queer poet to win the Nuyorican Poets Cafe Grand Slam. He has taught intergenerational workshops at the Whitney Museum, the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, and the Department of Education. He is the lead spoken word teaching artist for the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and executive director of A Gathering of the Tribes.
Andrew Suseno
Andrew Suseno, DPT, is a Chinese-Indonesian American movement artist, professional dancer, somatic educator, and creator of the Discovery Cards. He has taught creative dance to K–12 students and led intergenerational workshops with seniors and their grandchildren in East Harlem. Drawing from Indonesian philosophy, somatics, and movement improvisation, Andrew helps families explore the stories, cultures, and memories that live in the body.
About Moving Rasa
Moving Rasa is a creative movement practice and nonprofit that helps people come back to themselves and feel more connected to others. “Rasa” can mean the feeling of aliveness, connection, and deep knowing that lives in the body.
Through movement, play, reflection, and creativity, Moving Rasa invites people to explore their stories, cultures, memories, and relationships in a welcoming space. The nonprofit supports people of all ages, with a special commitment to survivors, Queer BIPOC communities, and Southeast Asian diaspora men practicing emotional awareness, care, and accountability.
On Accessibility and Participation
This workshop includes gentle movement, writing, reflection, and creative activities. Participants can choose how much they want to move, write, create, or share.
Please share any access needs, mobility considerations, allergies, or support requests in the registration form.
Come Move, Make, and Remember Together
Join us for a playful morning of poetry, movement, art-making, and connection. Together, families will explore how culture lives in everyday gestures, flavors, family rhythms, objects, memories, humor, silence, care, and dreams.
Come discover how culture is remembered, changed, and carried forward.
We offer a sliding scale so families can choose the rate that best fits their circumstances. The suggested rate is $95 per family pair, which includes one middle schooler and one parent/caregiver. Additional family members are $25. Reduced-rate spots are available.